Tokyo (AFP) July 7, 2023
Plans to discharge treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant cleared their last regulatory hurdle in Japan on Friday, as China said it would ban some food imports over the move.
South Korea meanwhile said Tokyo's plan to dilute the treated water and release it into the sea over several decades met or exceeded international standards.
Some 1.33 million cubic metres of groundwater, ra
Brussels (AFP) July 7, 2023
The European Commission said Friday it is proposing the whole EU pull out of a 1990s-era energy treaty that shored up use of fossil fuels, after several countries in the bloc planned to withdraw.
The Energy Charter Treaty "is no longer compatible" with the European Union's goals on striving for a greener, carbon-neutral future, the commission said in a statement.
While the commission had
Eibelshausen, Germany (AFP) July 7, 2023
As Germany looks to a future without fossil fuels, a big white boxy appliance is generating a lively debate - and often a heated one - for its potential to replace emissions-heavy oil and gas boilers.
Heat pumps are spurring huge investments from major companies in Europe's top economy, as a backlog of orders piles up for the devices.
While gas remains the most common way to heat Germa
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 08, 2023
In 1611, Johannes Kepler - known for his laws of planetary motion - offered a solution to the question concerning the densest possible way to arrange equal-sized spheres. The famed astronomer took on this problem when asked how to stack cannonballs so as to take up the least amount of space. Kepler concluded that the best configuration is a so-called face-centered cubic lattice - an approach com
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 08, 2023
Earth's atmosphere protects aircraft passengers and crew from the effects of the South Atlantic Anomaly. At cruising altitude, there is no additional exposure to cosmic radiation off the coast of Brazil. This was confirmed by a German Aerospace Center research team during measurement flights. The results of the study, conducted as Atlantic Kiss mission, have now been published in a scientific jo
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 08, 2023
Rice University physicist Frank Geurts is one of two scientists elected to lead the world's longest-running nuclear physics experiment at a particle collider facility, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Together with Brookhaven Lab physicist Lijuan Ruan, Geurts will serve a three-year term as co-spokesperson for the STAR collaboration. This group
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 7, 2023
A South Korean government task force said Friday that Japan's plan to release radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant meets international safety standards, echoing an assessment by the U.N.'s atomic watchdog released earlier this week.
"We have reviewed the implementation plan put forward by Tokyo Electric Power Co.," Yoo Guk-hee, chairman of South Korea's
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 08, 2023
An agreement with the Johnson Space Center will allow the University of Arizona to be substantially involved in human spaceflight expeditions. The University of Arizona recently signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA's Johnson Space Center that will allow the university to engage extensively in human spaceflight missions.
The agreement will take the university's current association with NA
Paris (ESA) Jul 08, 2023
When the RIME antenna on ESA's Juice mission failed to deploy a few days after launch, the engineering teams faced the mighty challenge to understand the fault and rectify it. At stake was a chance to see inside Jupiter's mysterious icy moons.
The stakes were already high before the spacecraft ever left the ground. ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) was designed by Airbus to conduct
Geneva (AFP) July 6, 2023
The mind-blowing growth of artificial intelligence poses many questions that have no answers yet, the United Nations admitted Thursday at its AI summit, attended by some exceptionally life-like humanoid robots.
The UN is aware that AI technology is racing ahead of the capacity to set its boundaries and directions, and so it brought together some of the best minds on the topic - whether huma
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Houston TX (SPX) Jul 08, 2023
NASA's Valkyrie robot is beginning a new mission half a world away from its home at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. As part of a reimbursable Space Act Agreement with Woodside Energy in Perth, Western Australia, NASA plans to use a Valkyrie robot to develop remote mobile dexterous manipulation capabilities to accommodate remote caretaking of uncrewed
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 08, 2023
Depictions of the Milky Way show a coiling pattern of spiral "arms" filled with stars extending outward from the center. Similar patterns have been observed in the swirling clouds of gas and dust surrounding some young stars - planetary systems in the making. These so-called protoplanetary disks, which are the birthplaces of young planets, are of interest to scientists because they offer glimpse
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 05, 2023
While many of us were up late watching fireworks here on Earth, Curiosity wrapped up a very busy weekend on Mars. The team was pleased that our four-sol plan over the 4th of July holiday executed as expected, but planning today was unusual because the new images of the terrain in front of the rover could not be loaded into our planning software. Although we were not able to select ChemCam and Ma
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 08, 2023
In an unprecedented find, scientists from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) have unearthed traces of an unusual volcanic process on the Moon that had previously only been recognized on Earth. This breakthrough was made possible by the use of a unique new instrument designed to examine microwave wavelengths, a process longer than infrared.
Senior Scientist at PSI and primary author of t
Paris (ESA) Jul 08, 2023
Last week, members of ESA's astronaut support teams participated in a helicopter underwater escape training. This training is mandatory for people involved in astronaut landing operations, including flight surgeons and photographers, who capture the key moments of an astronaut mission.
With European astronauts now launching and landing from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, splashdow
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 08, 2023
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), a significant player in the satellite industry, has announced a collaboration with Lulav Space, a specialist in robotics for space applications. The partnership aims to explore, develop, and showcase the potential of Event-based Star Trackers (EBST).
Sidus Space intends to incorporate the jointly developed EBST into the upcoming LizzieSat mission, which is the f
Canso, Canada (SPX) Jul 07, 2023
Recently, a group of some of the brightest young minds in the fields of Canadian science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) took their passion for rocketry and space to new levels as they launched their amateur high-powered rocket from Spaceport Nova Scotia.
Arbalest Rocketry, a rocketry team from Ontario's York University, made the most of a Launch Canada initiated opportunit
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Stephen and Carol Baxter were found dead on Mersea Island, near Colchester, on April 9.
Will the tourists make it a humbling 3-0 or is a comeback due? Check out our guide on how to watch a free England vs. Australia Ashes live stream.
Alex Agius Saliba serves as MEP with the Socialist & Democrats group. Photo: PL
Real Madrid agreed on personal terms of the contract with the forward PSG Kylian Mbappe, according to Athletistic. The Madrid club and the player have agreed a five-year contract with an annual salary of 50 million euros. Clausula striker will be one billion euros
